Post Apartheid Labour Market Series 1993-2025
South Africa, 1993 - 2025
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Reference ID
zaf-df-palms-1993-2025-v4
Producer(s)
Andrew Kerr, David Lam, Martin Wittenberg
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Sep 05, 2013
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Nov 24, 2025
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highest level of education (waves 2016:3 to most recent qlfs) (educhigh4)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
2251020
Invalid:
5196540
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
98
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
83
loc_end_pos:
84
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0. grade r/0 | 43990 |
2%
|
| 1 | 1. sub a/grade 1 | 56685 |
2.5%
|
| 2 | 2. sub b/grade 2 | 62995 |
2.8%
|
| 3 | 3. grade 3/standard 1 | 71103 |
3.2%
|
| 4 | 4. grade 4/standard 2 | 80339 |
3.6%
|
| 5 | 5. grade 5/standard 3 | 77913 |
3.5%
|
| 6 | 6. grade 6/standard 4 | 88637 |
3.9%
|
| 7 | 7. grade 7/standard 5 | 116925 |
5.2%
|
| 8 | 8. grade 8/standard 6/form 1 | 129061 |
5.7%
|
| 9 | 9. grade 9/standard 7/form 2 | 132609 |
5.9%
|
| 10 | 10. grade 10/standard 8/form 3 | 198411 |
8.8%
|
| 11 | 11. grade 11/standard 9/form 4 | 224771 |
10%
|
| 12 | 12. grade 12/standard 10/form 5/matric (no exemption) | 373223 |
16.6%
|
| 13 | 13. grade 12/standard 10/form 5/matric (exemption/bachelors | 49585 |
2.2%
|
| 14 | 14. ntc i | 1339 |
0.1%
|
| 15 | 15. ntc ii | 2578 |
0.1%
|
| 16 | 16. ntc iii | 5250 |
0.2%
|
| 17 | 17. n4/ntc 4 | 4056 |
0.2%
|
| 18 | 18. n5 /ntc 5 | 3240 |
0.1%
|
| 19 | 19. n6/ntc 6 | 7552 |
0.3%
|
| 20 | 20. certificate with less than grade 12/std 10 | 3834 |
0.2%
|
| 21 | 21. diploma with less than grade 12/std 10 | 2583 |
0.1%
|
| 22 | 22. certificate with grade 12/std 10 | 25607 |
1.1%
|
| 23 | 23. diploma with grade 12/std 10 | 54325 |
2.4%
|
| 24 | 24. higher diploma | 10621 |
0.5%
|
| 25 | 25. post higher diploma | 3640 |
0.2%
|
| 26 | 26. bachelors degree | 41416 |
1.8%
|
| 27 | 27. bachelors degree and pg diploma | 4994 |
0.2%
|
| 28 | 28. honours degree | 10484 |
0.5%
|
| 29 | 29. higher degree (masters/phd) | 7067 |
0.3%
|
| 30 | 30. other, specify | 9264 |
0.4%
|
| 31 | 31. don't know | 9595 |
0.4%
|
| 98 | 98. no schooling | 337328 |
15%
|
| Sysmiss | 5196540 |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.